Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[God of Nothing]

Oh, and the happily-ever-after faggot plantation is heavily implied to be bullshit that Silver made up. Just believable enough to protect his reputation (and so the producers of the show don't get screeched at for killing off a faggot), but presented in such a way that the scene looks like a dream sequence compared to the rest of the show, so anyone that actually watched the whole show rather than just skimmed it to write reviews for some shitty rag can tell it didn't really happen.

i would believe this if it weren't unironically built up in episodes prior and silver wasn't looking into it

 

[Screamer_2]

I really liked Black Sails, it's been on my list of shows I am looking forward to rewatch but just giving myself a good distance from when it finished. Probably enough time has past.

I still hope one day they do a Treasure Island follow up. Whatever that would be.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Black Sails is great, rewatched it a couple of times. Really enjoy the performance of Flint and Vane, the general backstabbing and how everything unfolds. Didn't mind Flint being gay since the portrayal was done well. Sometimes the stronk womyn is a bit too much, and pacing is really wonky but otherwise excellent show.

Finished Boardwalk Empire and I certainly would recommend it. Prohibition is such a weird slice of history. The character drama is well done, it's a sad show overall with the amount of broken people and shattered dreams. There are some issues, I don't think the time skip is well done and the "twist" at the end wasn't bad, but the ending doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Screamer_2]

I watched the first season of Boardwalk Empire when it first aired. I enjoyed but never bothered coming back. On the list of shows I want to rewatch or watch for the first time, it'd be too far down for me to ever get to.. I've never seen The Sopranos or watched Deadwood beyond season 1, for instance.

Soilers about the gay in Black Sails. It also didn't annoy me because he wasn't a fag. He was still just a man pissed off at the British Empire.

Gay people may disagree, but I find the way gays tend to be presented in film/TV doesn't reflect any gay people I have ever known. It's weird clichés, stereotypes, or some woke agenda angle in the portrayal. As the woke angle has become more prominent, they have become more annoying as they want to push the gayness in your face more. Then make some point like actually gay relationships are better. I caveat that by the fact I don't watch specifically gay stuff. If there's a rom-com called Bottom Buddies. I ain't watching.

I have heard anecdotally that there's a divide in the lesbian community about how they're portrayed unrealistically. Some being annoyed. The others just enjoying they cast much hotter actresses than what lesbians tend to look like.

 

[Fishnumm]

trainspotting kicks ass watch it if you haven't seen it

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Gay people may disagree, but I find the way gays tend to be presented in film/TV doesn't reflect any gay people I have ever known. It's weird clichés, stereotypes, or some woke agenda angle in the portrayal. As the woke angle has become more prominent, they have become more annoying as they want to push the gayness in your face more. Then make some point like actually gay relationships are better.

I saw a surprisingly good post on 4chan a few years ago in which some gay guy said how much his life is affected by his sexual orientation. It made me realize that the main problem with gayness and other sexual deviations is that they're never discussed as something unwanted. You never see real people or fictional characters saying "I never asked to be gay" because that would imply there's something wrong with them. The only example I can name off the top of my head is the guy who kills Kevin Spacey at the end of American Beauty (written by a gay man). Someone so deranged by his repressed lust that he just has to murder his innocent neighbor.

I personally think there's absolutely nothing good about homosexuality and it bothers me when those people have "pride" parades. What are they proud of exactly?

 

[Screamer_2]

I saw a surprisingly good post on 4chan a few years ago in which some gay guy said how much his life is affected by his sexual orientation. It made me realize that the main problem with gayness and other sexual deviations is that they're never discussed as something unwanted. You never see real people or fictional characters saying "I never asked to be gay" because that would imply there's something wrong with them. The only example I can name off the top of my head is the guy who kills Kevin Spacey at the end of American Beauty (written by a gay man). Someone so deranged by his repressed lust that he just has to murder his innocent neighbor.

I personally think there's absolutely nothing good about homosexuality and it bothers me when those people have "pride" parades. What are they proud of exactly?

The problem is that gay, like trans are actually an umbrella terms for a wide variety of things. Pride seems to have moved on from, "we aren't ashamed" to be a flagrant display of degeneracy now. It's pride for people to display that in public.

People who don't understand this, then take their kids to a pride parade, thinking they're just good people accepting of others. Only to have a naked man in a pup play mask trying to groom their kids. Next to a man in a kiddie pool with multiple men pissing on him.

Yet most gay people would find that all horrendous. These terms just allow the extremes to slip in.

 

[God of Nothing]

I have heard anecdotally that there's a divide in the lesbian community about how they're portrayed unrealistically. Some being annoyed. The others just enjoying they cast much hotter actresses than what lesbians tend to look like.

What? They want to be shown as the fat looney psychos they actually are?

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

What? They want to be shown as the fat looney psychos they actually are?

People who aren't white, straight and male always complain about being "portrayed unrealistically" by people who ARE white, straight and male. This is nothing new.

 

[Sonalee Rashitwar]

I realize I’m a huge nerd about this, but I recently found a German kids’ TV series I used to watch on trips abroad with my mom. Bad parenting choices aside, she did really push travel and learning foreign language young!

It’s called “Sandmann”. Basically, stop motion animation shorts that originally started in East Germany in the 1950s. Very calming and low stimulation, because it was meant to help kids go to bed peacefully (and help their parents with this). No outright pushing of communism, and the series actually changed hands after reunification and was broadcast in the united Germany.

Just a really cute, intricate art style that you never see any more in TV, with digital everything. I remember the outro was always the Sandmann throwing sand at the viewers, and I used to cover my eyes so the sand wouldn’t get in and i wouldn’t have to go to bed.


Edit: unfortunately have this theme song and a 90s Haribo commercial jingle stuck in my head right now. Send help!

 

[Michael Wade]

I have not finished it, but Amazon has a so far EXCELLENT documentary on the Nazis called Hitlers bodyguard.




It's 90s made and has a crapton of details and footage I never saw about the inner workings and drama of the Nazi party. Stuff like himmler constantly trying to gain control of Hitlers personal guard and Hitlers intentionally erratic schedule. Despite the name it's actually covers everything from beginning to end and does an excellent job providing a neutral perspective on Hitler. They gave him the most evil sounding voice actor possible but it may actually be the most human I've ever seen him.

The thing this documentary made me think about more then anything else was how different the Nazi party might have been. Hitler was startlingly impressionable to the people around him. And Himmler was one of the biggest influences. Once he gained power everything was pretty much locked in. The dude was insanely power hungry and intentionally cultivated an atmosphere of fear that prevented normal people from sharing opinions with Hitler. Himmler was so bad Im certain he would have couped Hitler if the war was won. What with constantly trying to get dirt on everyone and control of every level of security.

He was so petty he singled out one of Hitler's bodyguards and constantly tried to get him fired for being drunk. Hitler repeatedly told himmler to fuck off and it finally got to the point that when Himmler got his wish it ended up saving the dudes life when he was sent to the Frontlines of the western front. Ironically Hitler choose his guard because he liked shooting the shit with them. He had no faith in their ability to protect him against a serious attempt on his life. Really good series and this is just a small taste of it.

 

[Damien Thorne]

An anime anthology titled Memories, worth watching for its opening story alone, Magnetic Rose. I thought that was fucking brilliant cinema.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

An anime anthology titled Memories, worth watching for its opening story alone, Magnetic Rose. I thought that was fucking brilliant cinema.

I loved Memories, The whole Magnetic Rose might be one of the best looking animated sequences I've ever seen. I like how crazy Stink Bomb got and Cannon Fodder does the one shot in a impressive way.

 

[Nick Obre]

An anime anthology titled Memories, worth watching for its opening story alone, Magnetic Rose. I thought that was fucking brilliant cinema.

Memories on the whole, and Magnetic Rose specifically, were made pretty much by anime royalty. Mamoru Oshi, Satoshi Kon, Yoko Kanno, and several other legends. Amazing stuff.

 

[Stasi]

For anyone who enjoys old detective mysteries check out the Mr Moto and Charlie Chan films. They are all about an hour long and if made today would probably be Netflix/Amazon series.

Mr Moto is a Japanese detective/secret agent played by the legendary Peter Lorre. There were 8 films in total and all can be found on youtube

Charlie Chan is a Chinese-American private detective, the films are based on pulp novels from the 20s and 30s. There are 40 something films in total and a few different actors portrayed the character, Sidney Toler is my favourite.

You can also find better version and some colourized films on archive.org, I'm adding some of them to my library right now.

The eagle eyed among you might have noticed that in both cases Asian characters are being portrayed by white actors which is very offensive to some people's modern sensibilities. I think those people are idiots. Neither show/characters is offensive in my opinion and probably did a lot in opening the door for Asian actors and positive portrayal of Asians in general going forward.

 

[Commander X]

With the passing of Robert Redford, I'm going to recommend the 1972 film "The Candidate" directed by Michael Ritchie.

It's an interesting film you couldn't make today not because it's too un-PC or whatever, but because it features an actor who was one of the biggest stars at the time in an intelligent, naturalistic, and rather ambivalent survey of the emptiness at the heart of the American political process. Redford's character doesn't get any big OSCAR CLIP moments, and the movie doesn't play the usual narrative games you'd expect from such a film. It doesn't fully lampoon the world of political campaigns, but there isn't much interpersonal drama or soul-searching involved mined from the situation for drama, either. Redford's character, a left-wing activist and lawyer (and the estranged son of a popular former governor), is recruited by Democratic campaign specialist Peter Boyle to run for a Senate seat against a popular Republican incumbent. It's not that Boyle and company think Redford will win, but it would look too bad to let the incumbent run unchallenged. Boyle assures Redford he'll lose, he'll get to have a public pulpit from which to shine a spotlight on his favored causes and the Dems can say, "oh well, we at least tried!". Redford and Boyle get so caught up in the campaigning (while selling out everything he previously believed in to come across as a more palatable moderate) that they actually start seeing successes, and the polling starts causing the incumbent to get nervous...and the thing is, Redford's character is "uninteresting". He doesn't seem particularly introspective, except for exhibiting some vague discomfort about "selling out". But after some initial awkwardness, and acquiring some polish he looks and sounds like a winner, reciting speeches pieced together from platitudes and buzzwords in front of crowds. And Ritchie and Redford seem to be saying that sadly, these are the sorts of guys who thrive in the machine.

 

[Lip Glossary]

i would believe this if it weren't unironically built up in episodes prior and silver wasn't looking into it

But you have to remember this could be a case of unreliable narrator which I choose to believe it was. in my opinion it was the equivalent of your parents having your dog put down and then telling everyone he went to "go live on a big farm where he can run around all day"
No, the faggot got killed and historically Anne Bonny was the baddest bitch ever because her last words to calico Jack were allegedly "if you would have fought like a man you wouldn't be getting hanged like a dog" lol.

I really liked Black Sails, it's been on my list of shows I am looking forward to rewatch but just giving myself a good distance from when it finished. Probably enough time has past.

I still hope one day they do a Treasure Island follow up. Whatever that would be.

I would love to see a Treasure Island follow up but I guarantee you it probably won't happen. Pirate shit has always been notorious for not being able to make money, with the exception of pirates of the Caribbean. And even that just barely got made because they were expecting it to lose cash.

 

[God of Nothing]

But you have to remember this could be a case of unreliable narrator which I choose to believe it was. in my opinion it was the equivalent of your parents having your dog put down and then telling everyone he went to "go live on a big farm where he can run around all day"

you're unironically coping

Anne Bonny was the baddest bitch ever because her last words to calico Jack were allegedly "if you would have fought like a man you wouldn't be getting hanged like a dog" lol.

Reminds me of the last ruler of Muslim Spain supposedly being chewed out by his own mother for not being man enough to hold on to it.

 

[Lip Glossary]

you're unironically coping

Maybe I am but I just don't like the way that the ending was ruined by one of the main characters going to homo summer camp.

Reminds me of the last ruler of Muslim Spain supposedly being chewed out by his own mother for not being man enough to hold on to it.

It would suck so bad to get humiliated by a loved one right before you died. You're standing there like "they're about to fucking hang me, do you really need to add insult to injury???"

 

[Exegesis]

Gay people may disagree, but I find the way gays tend to be presented in film/TV doesn't reflect any gay people I have ever known. It's weird clichés, stereotypes, or some woke agenda angle in the portrayal.

Gay men aren't hyperfeminine but hollywood still tries to act like we all are; unironically one of the better representations was probably that one annoying faggot in desperate housewives. Most married gay men don't have a defined woman or man in the relationship either (at least the ones that last).
I like this show called 3%, it's Portugueses and the dub is ass so I just settled for subtitles.